in 2018 when ron desantis was running for governor against andrew gillum, andrew gillum took the majority in devol county. rick scott running for senator against bill nelson, bill nelson had the majority in duvall county. don't be surprised 42 days from now if joe biden carries duvall county. be shocked and don't expect him to carry the surrounding counties. adjacent to st. john's county, baker county, all of those will go to donald trump in big numbers. as you move more to the center of the state, orange county, orlando, tampa, that has become a shifting battleground. that is hard-fought in that area. you have seen a great deal of immigration in the puerto rican community that is more liberal and democratic. the nellis county is -- pinellas county is one that donald trump surprise people by carrying last time. if donald trump is to win the nellis county this time that would be a good sign for his campaign. it is unlikely he will, but it would be a good sign. on the southeast side with miami-dade and broward, those are big population centers, heavily democratic, but also a hispanicionate

two years ago, in the governor's race, ron desantis and andrew gillum, the polling showed that andrewillum was going to win. that was the day before the election. and desantis won. it went to an automatic machine recount. rick scott was in a battle with bill nelson, very popular senator. the day before the election outside the margin of error, the polling showed that bill nelson was going to win. rick scott won by 10,000 votes and it went to a mandatory recount. it's hard to come up with a bright line because it's a big state and it tends to be so close. >> on election night, will we know who won the state of florida? >> i think so, by the way, i think this is really important. there's a lot of discussion in the country going on right now about will we know who the president is going to be on election night. part of that conversation, of course, is because of mail-in ballots, a large number due to covid-19, because of a lot of absentees, a lot of mail-in ballots coming in. and because of that counting, there's concern that we won't know on election night and it could go on for a long,

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in 2018 when ron desantis was running for governor against andrew gillum, andrew gillum took the majorityn devol county. rick scott running for senator against bill nelson, bill nelson had the majority in duvall county. don't be surprised 42 days from now if joe biden carries duvall county. be shocked and don't expect him to carry the surrounding counties. adjacent to st. john's county, baker county, all of those will go to donald trump in big numbers. as you move more to the center of the state, orange county, orlando, tampa, that has become a shifting battleground. that is hard-fought in that area. you have seen a great deal of immigration in the puerto rican community that is more liberal and democratic. the nellis county is -- pinellas county is one that donald trump surprise people by carrying last time. if donald trump is to win the nellis county this time that would be a good sign for his campaign. it is unlikely he will, but it would be a good sign. on the southeast side with miami-dade and broward, those are big population centers, heavily democratic, but also a hispanicionate co

andrew gillum. where did he end up? bad data all the reporting that was reported on fox, our station down here about how you are reporting deaths that weren't actually attributed to the covid virus at all. and third of all, i love ron desantis and i'm from flagler county that has very low cases of the covid virus. not a lot of people are wearing masks. and we do very well here. our school is open. doing just fine. you don't stand a chance in florida. guest: obviously we have a very different opinion of the status of our state. they are seeing record numbers of deaths in cases across the state. florida, in in south have a 90-year-old grandmother. my mother herself went to cancer and they can't leave their house for months because of what is happening in our tricounty area as well as orlando and tampa. seeing a significant amount of people that are concerned. every single day i'm talking to teachers that are very scared of what's happening here in the state of florida. when it comes to round two santos, he walked into 202

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you may remember that andrew gillum lost by 0.4 of a percent and senator nelson lost by 0.1 of a percent. part of that did deal with delayed mail ballots due to a sorting facility that had had a closure due to terrorist pipe bombs being mailed through it. what's instructive about that is how senator nelson and mayor gillum reacted, which is they didn't attack the process, they didn't accuse the election workers of bad faith, they didn't claim there was massive fraud. i represented senator nelson in that. we fought hard during the recount, but then we understood that the votes that had been cast had been counted. what i really worry about is a president that right now is laying seeds of doubt about democracy every day, and he is trying to undermine the u.s. postal service, confidence in it, confidence in mail balloting, and i hope that post election day he acts more responsibly, although i don't have high hopes for that. >> well, the reason we're dedicating a full hour to this is because of our concerns about how the vote will be counted, what will things be like after election day, and,

remember that florida is notorious for crushing democratic dreams we remember just two years ago, andrew gillumn days from the election we also saw bill nelson ahead in polling over rick scott in that senate race. we saw what happened there in 2016 also, hillary clinton was ahead in several polls in those final two weeks. we still got 49 days to go so there's still a lot of campaigning to go in florida, but no question, it is the battleground state prize and you're going to see both sides go for it aggressively >> and just to show the history here, the two democrats who actually won florida, the two times democrats won florida were barack obama and joe biden as his veep it was 51 to 48 and 48 to 49 hillary didn't she was at 48, trump was at 49 so the 50 feels somehow important but who knows. but let's talk about the hispanic vote specifically you do have a difference between what you found when you were polling in miami-dade, which is the key county for hispanic voters, just to be clear and this poll, this tiny monmouth poll that only had a hundred people in it what do you think is happening am

as you mentioned, andrew gillum lost by 30,000.toe run now with hyperdigiteah targeting, harris and biden have to show up on a daily basis, keeping the attention of the voter. it's critically important for him to win this this state. i thi the ability to be on instagram is something something they need to do. what you have seen in florida, you are starting to see republicans and trump pit black voters against hispanic voters. that's something we should watch out forom and remain diligent o the amount of disinformation. >> do you want to speak about this? trump gained 8 points in florida in the 2016 election among black males. can youmock talk about that stry and how we can combat it? we know 24% of latinos identify as black. >> yeah. look, the president and his re-election campaign are not giving up on black voters in particular, even with all of the civil unrest. the focus on systemic racism and the waysm some in his administration that they don't think it exists. they are courting the voters. he is seeing an uptick in some places

florida specifically in the 2018 midterm as well, governor desantis was polling behind andrew gillumim up four points, the other had gillem up four points. polling as is always a must win. recently 2018 the florida voters went republican for governor desantis and senator scott. i think the president will do very well in the home state. north carolina is another example. just as early as late july, recently as late july, the rnc talked about over 3 million voter contacts n comparison biden is just hiring a state director in north carolina in early august. i think that is a stark comparison. when you have close races where it matters with voter contact, the trump campaign will blow the biden campaign on voter contact. ashley: president trump saying more tax cuts are coming. i want you to listen to the sound bite and i will get your comment. >> we'll return to unprecedented pros parity through pro-american policies. we'll pass new tax cuts to increase take-home pay. we'll cut taxes substantially. we'll get it back through growth. ashley: that is a positive message, is it not, katy, enou

andrew gillum. where did he end up? data all the reporting that was reported on fox, our station down here about how you are reporting deaths that weren't actually attributed to the covid virus at all. and third of all, i love ron desantis and i'm from flagler county that has very low cases of the covid virus. not a lot of people are wearing masks. and we do very well here. our school is open. doing just fine. you don't stand a chance in florida. guest: obviously we have a very different opinion of the status of our state. they are seeing record numbers of deaths in cases across the state. florida, in in south have a 90-year-old grandmother. my mother herself went to cancer and they can't leave their house for months because of what is happening in our tricounty area as well as orlando and tampa. seeing a significant amount of people that are concerned. every single day i'm talking to teachers that are very scared of what's happening here in the state of florida. when it comes to round two santos, he walked into 2020 wi